This week the world lost two great entertainers. Don LaFaontaine, voice over guy for countless movie trailers and actor/musician/ composer Jerry Reed both passed away. LaFontaine was one of the most recognizable voices in the world as he promoted everything from Scream to George of the Jungle, Gieco finally put a face to voice in one of their best and funniest commercials. Reed made such great hits as When You’re Hot, You’re Hot and Elvis Presley’s return to form Guitar Man as well as being an ingratiating presence in Burt Reynolds’ Smokey and the Bandit movies (If you want to see the perfect good old boy, badass villain check him out in the Reynolds vehicle Gator). They will both be missed.
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The Dark Knight has passed the 300 million mark in domestic ticket says in ten days, making a new record for quickest grossing film. Predictions say it could make 400 million in 18 days and could even possibly surpass the 600 million record set by Titanic ten years earlier. That would be awesome! The highest grossing movie of all time could be a Batman movie. I’m doing my part, having just back from seeing it again, heck even The Patient One has seen it several times and she doesn’t even really like superhero movies. That’s how good a movie it is. Here’s hoping it makes it.
Apparently the new Hulk movie The Incredible Hulk, which is not a sequel or a reboot of the franchise but is somehow both according to the director Louis Letterier, has some Marvel character cameos in it. A lot of hoopla has been made about Robert Downey, Jr.’s 30 second appearance as Tony Stark at the end of the movie, one online reviewer commenting that he steals the whole movie (which isn’t such a difficult feat for Downey, it’s practically his hobby). But there is also a cameo by the star spangled avenger himself, Captain America. But according to Letterier on Collinder.com it’s a hidden cameo that you have to look for to see. Huh?
